Obviously, this was caused by the barrel wall failing.
If only we could recover the missing segment of barrel, we could send it to METL for expert metallurgical analysis.
If the initial report found ferrous contamination in the braze joint, we could show an EDX spectrograph the next day to then say that the contamination was manganese sulfide.
Perhaps the steel in the missing segment was burned. But NOT burned in the normal sense where severe overheating actually burned carbon out of the steel, rather burned like a dirty scorched cooking pot.
Then, a totally erroneous statement such as this always makes a lasting impression upon the impressionable:
[quote=Drew Hause] Oxidized debris = burned steel [quote]
In addition, it would be most helpful and informative to post a bunch of photos of totally unrelated barrel bursts to cover the fact that you don't have a clue.
This is the Doublegunshop equivalent of attempting to portray yourself as an Award Winning Winemaker, when nothing could be further from the truth.
